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great interest—swords, halberds, spikes, pieces of armor, clothing, etc., 
etc. They had not a few literary works of literary and'historic value, 
ancient books in manuscript, olographs and autographs of their great 
men. 
. The History of the Province of San Vicente Ferrer, a work by the 
Friar Francisco Ximenez, which, at whatever time it was commenced, 
seems to have been finished before 1720 ; another, "Isagoge A pologetico, 
General de las Indias." Photographie reproductions of the original 
volume of the history, by Bernard Diaz. 
The Dominican Republic.—Tbis little country was represented in 
greater part by historie than by prehistorie objects. Its cargo was 
composed principally of those objects which related to the Spanish 
occupation. One of principal interest was the First Cross. It was 
made of wood, erected in the first church that was established in the 
western world. Some of the stones of that construction, the plate, and 
similar objects, had greater value to the eyes of the Dominicans than 
others of greater scientific value. 
In the display of Peru, the Argentine Republie and Uraguay, they 
exhibited more of the Inca civilization than of the Aztecs. The dis- 
play was not formidable in numbers, nor were the objects of great size, 
but there was enough to assign them to the same scale of civilization as 
that which belonged to the Age of Polished Stone. There were objects 
of copper and gold. 
Ecuador had an abundant collection of pottery of different 
forms, as of vases, dishes, platters, cups, figures of animals, and human 
representation, etc., of the usual form—the antique stone-work of the 
same deseription, polished stone hatchets, st tars, ling st 
pestles, and copper implements, ete. 
One of the peculiar objects presented in the Exposition at Madrid 
(and there were only three of them in the entire Exposition) was a 
Mummified human Head, the bones having all been removed, and it 
being reduced in size to about that of one sixth, skin and features 
all retained in proper proportion, the hair long and black, with a half- 
dozen strands of cord drawn through the lips. 
Costa Rica was represented by her Minister, Senor Peralta, by Mr. 
Alfaro, Director of the National Museum at San J osé,and by Mr. Ferraz. 
Costa Rica had two large rooms assigned to her, and though one of the 
smallest countries, she filled and adorned with beauty and taste, the 
large space assigned to her. She displayed a considerable number of 
large stone objects, exceeding, in this regard, almost any other of her 
sister countries—stone objects in human form, others in animal form ` 
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